Nicole Martinsen

**I've just submitted my novels to Amazon's Kindle Select program. For the next 90 days they will be exclusive on Amazon. Afterwards I intend to bring them back online at Smashwords. Sorry for any ...view more**I've just submitted my novels to Amazon's Kindle Select program. For the next 90 days they will be exclusive on Amazon. Afterwards I intend to bring them back online at Smashwords. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause! I can tell I have readers... I just have no idea who most of you are or how to tell you otherwise! Thanks for understanding!" ... Nicole spent her childhood in Skokie, IL. When she wasn't chasing her older brother, she and the kids-next-door would commence in the honored pasttime of playing pretend. Together they would explore the wilderness, save princesess, and plot in a great stone castle. This is the adult equivalent of traipsing through the flowerbed, coercing an unlucky little boy into a dress, and stealing bedsheets to wall off a bunkbed. These adventures would eventually lead her to immortalize them in print, though if asked what made her put ink to paper, she'd say, "I thought it was a good idea at the time." She would emerge from this battlefield victorious many years later, leaving a pile of crumpled paper corpses by the wastebacket. Now she calls herself an Author, determined to prove that a good pen is far mightier than some dinky swordview less